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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw · plus 1
plus 1Lotto
JackpotZAR 1,959,094
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025draw 678 of 2,540 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 677 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 February 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 72% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 78 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 677 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.
Frequency Explorer →Shares 4 of 6 numbers (14, 19, 27, 33) with the draw of 27 December 2023 — its closest relative in 677 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 41% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (31 January 2024): 2, 14 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 123 — the 15th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →19 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 9 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 43% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 32,052 winners, 2% more than the 32k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 1,959,094 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 43 | ZAR 3,394 |
| 4 + Bonus | 119 | ZAR 1,441 |
| 4 | 2,179 | ZAR 139 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,938 | ZAR 103 |
| 3 | 42,040 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 32,052 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 79,372 | — |